Call: Virtual
certification & smart planning

Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme with nearly 80
billion € of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020). Apart from classic research projects, Horizon 2020 also funds
innovation projects and pilot-projects in different fields.

Shift2Rail fosters the introduction of better trains to the market, which operate on an innovative rail network infrastructure
at a lower life-cycle cost, with more capacity to cope with growing passenger and freight mobility demand. All this are developed
by European companies, thereby increasing their competitiveness in the global marketplace. Shift2Rail also contributes to
the paradigm for the modal shift to attract users to rail. For EU passengers, this represents more travel options, more comfort
and improved punctuality. For freight forwarder/shippers, rail freight offers a more cost-effective, punctual and traceable
shipment option.Shift2Rail contributes to:

Cutting the life-cycle cost of railway transports by as much as
50%

Doubling railway capacity

Increasing reliability and punctuality by as much as 50%

Call

Virtual
certification & smart planning

Description of call"Virtual certification &
smart planning"

Virtual Certification: The big challenge is a reduction of the duration and cost of the process for
an appropriate authorisation to put a new train into service. Projects shall aim at creating a lean structure to handle: an
appropriate coordination among relevant TDs to share generic technical methods; a common interface with standardization and
regulatory bodies.

Smart Planning: Proposals should aim at reaching a Smart Planning simulation concept that
is able to reproduce the real world railway situation and, in addition, that is able to forecast the effect of certain changes
(disturbances, timetable changes etc.).

This call is restricted to Joint Undertaking (JU) Members (founding and
associated), and their affiliated entities. In the case of Members in the form of consortia or groupings of legal entities,
the individual constituent entities of these consortia or groupings, and the affiliated entities of these individual constituent
entities, are eligible to participate in the restricted calls for JU Members.

Project
Partner

Yes

Project Partner Details

Projects must comprise at least
3 partners from at least 3 EU Member States or other eligible countries.